Silence of the lambs

Am I missing something? Is it National Sheep Week or something? Not only did a sheep grab the headlines earlier this week when it was pushed into a supermarket in a shopping trolley, but the attention-seeking ruminators are at it again. Yep, they seem to be becoming the woolly equivalent of Paris Hilton (except more intelligent).

Pic.No. 1 A picture of a sheep burping - Don't do it sheep! you are slowly killing us all!

So what tomfoolery have our ovine friends been up to today? Well quite simply, the little critters have been burping.

Oh yes, you read right. Scientists in Australia and New Zealand (where they are positively obsessed by sheep, as my friend Phil Moore will verify) have discovered that 66% of agricultural emissions of methane come from sheep burping.

Given the fact that methane is far worse for global warming than carbon dioxide, it means that sheep are subversively killing us all.

Pic.No.2. Don't be fooled by their blank expressions

Luckily, the scientists have cottoned onto the fact that sheep aren't as innocent as they look, and are going to genetically modify them all so that they burp less. Ha ha sheep! get out of that one without moving........

Gotta go, I am starting to feel hungry with all this talk about sheep.